Reimbursement rules related to Medicare, Medicaid and private third party payers

Credentialing and privileging

Joint Commission requirements

Medicare's condition of participation regulations

The training, certification, licensing and privileging for PAs

Measures necessary before a PA begins practice

Four areas of utilization of PAs in your system

Reporting structures of the PA to physicians and administrators

Hospital administrators will learn to understand and develop the productivity expectations and metrics by which the value of PAs is assessed within the institutions and learn the answers to FAQs:

What is shared billing?

Can a pre-op H&P performed by a PA be separately billed?

Can PAs bill for discharge summaries?

When can I bill for "incident to"?

How is the 1500 form filled out on an "incident to" claim?

Are PAs able to bill high level evaluation and management codes and consultations?

Speakers: Michael Powe from AAPA and Josanne Pagel, PA-C from the Cleveland Clinic.

We encourage you to send the billing personnel from your practice.

This program has been approved for 4.0 CEUs by AAPC.

This program has been reviewed and is approved for a maximum of 4.00 hours of AAPA Category 1 CME credit by the Physician Assistant Review Panel. Physician assistants should claim only those hours actually spent participating in the CME activity.